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..Taken together, these findings can be understood through quantitative theories of adaptive optimizing control...

Multiple reward signals in the brain

W SchultzInstitute of Physiology and Program in Neuroscience, University of Fribourg, CH 1700 Fribourg, SwitzerlandNat Rev Neurosci 1:199-207. 2000

..This research provides the first step towards an understanding of how rewards influence behaviour before they are received and how the brain might use reward information to control learning and goal-directed behaviour...

Reward signaling by dopamine neurons

W SchultzInstitute of Physiology and Program in Neuroscience, University of Fribourg, SwitzerlandNeuroscientist 7:293-302. 2001

..The dopamine reward prediction error signal may cooperate with these reward perception signals during the learning and performance of behavioral reactions to motivating environmental stimuli...

..These activations would serve a function similar to those striatal neurons that encode exclusively reward-related information in situations in which only a single outcome is obtainable. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED)..

..The results of this study are in general agreement with an account of goal-directed behavior according to which the outcome should be represented already at the time at which the behavior toward the outcome is performed...